“ I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. ”

“ Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. ”

“ I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. ”

“ If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. ”

“ There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. ”

“ A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. ”

“ We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. ”

“ Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. ”

“ There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ”

“ We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ”